Updated and republished for macOS 10.14.2; skip it unless you really really care about all the macOS releases. Originally published on November 14th, 2005. Below the break is a table showing all major releases of macOS (previously Mac OS X) from the public beta through the latest public version, which is macOS 10.14.2, as of December 5th, 2018—the 119th release in total. Note: Click the ⓘ symbol to read Apple’s release notes for a given update. The following was culled from Apple’s support downloads page, and as such, some of the dates may be off just a bit. If you know for certain that something is incorrect, please let me know and I’ll get it fixed. (Scroll to see all entries.).
Comments 2018 Dec 5 28 10.14.2 2.5GB Nov 7 8 10.14.1 SU1 1.3GB For 2018 MacBook Air Oct 30 36 10.14.1 3.3GB Sep 24 27 10.14 5.2GB Mojave – The ‘you need permission’ release Aug 28 38 10.13.6 SU2 1.32GB For 2018 Touch Bar MBPagain Jul 24 15 10.13.6 SU1 1.31GB For 2018 Touch Bar MBP Jul 9 38 10.13.6 1.32GB AirPlay 2 Jun 1 64 10.13.5 2.12GB Messages in iCloud Mar 29 37 10.13.4 2.36GB Sortable Safari bookmarks!! Feb 20 28 10.13.3 SU 40.4MB Indian character/Messages crash fix Jan 23 33 10.13.3 1.97GB Jan 8 33 10.13.2 SU 633.6MB Spectre and Meltdown fixes 2017 Dec 6 36 10.13.2 2.08GB Oct 31 26 10.13.1 1.47GB Oct 5 10 10.13 SU 915MB Addresses two security issues Sep 25 68 10.13 4.8GB High Sierra – Higher in the mountains? Jul 19 65 10.12.6 1.98GB May 15 49 10.12.5 1.57GB Mar 27 63 10.12.4 1.56GB Night Shift Jan 23 41 10.12.3 1.05GB 2016 Dec 13 50 10.12.2 1.94GB Oct 24 34 10.12.1 1.36GB Sep 20 64 10.12 4.77GB Sierra – Still in the mountains. Jul 18 63 10.11.6 759MB May 16 57 10.11.5 759MB Mar 20 61 10.11.4 1.58GB Jan 19 41 10.11.3 662MB 2015 Dec 9 49 10.11.2 1.4GB Oct 21 21 10.11.1 1.19GB Sep 30 48 10.11 6.08GB El Capitan – Go climb something!
Aug 13 44 10.10.5 1.02GB Jun 30 75 10.10.4 1.09GB Apr 16 8 10.10.3 SU 1.8MB Supplemental Update Apr 8 71 10.10.3 1.52GB Includes Photos app Jan 27 71 10.10.2 544MB 2014 Nov 17 32 10.10.1 311MB Oct 16 29 10.10 5.2 GB Yosemite – No surfers here. Sep 17 79 10.9.5 139 MB Jun 30 46 10.9.4 283 MB May 15 79 10.9.3 461 MB Feb 25 71 10.9.2 460 MB 2013 Dec 16 55 10.9.1 243.4 MB Oct 22 19 10.9 5.3 GB Mavericks – All out of big cats! I had put together a similar table, but I also had a weighted average of all the time in between releases.
The idea being that it might give me some indication for an educated guess on how long it will be before the next release. I had a% accuracy of all my numbers and a projected time span for the next minor release. About numbers, statistics and Excel I thought I was the only one;) Recently I started focusing all that energy and effort on stocks (something useful, and something that can make me money!). Keep up all the good work on the Robservatory. I enjoy reading what you have to say.
I was just wondering if anyone could help me, this probably isn’t the right place to ask but you all seem pretty smart and i am technologically retarded so, my dilema i need to upgrade my os x (currrently 10.2.8) but i can’t download anything higher than 10.3 if i don’t already have 10.3, which i have been looking for frantically but havent been able to find anywhere. Does it exist for me to download?
Is it that my system will not be able to take it anyway? I don’t know what to do now but i am quickly slipping into technological redundancy as i need to download things which require a better os. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You list 10.0.2 as “never released”, but in fact it was. I’m having trouble finding the exact date, but I’m pretty sure it was the 1st of April 2001 (I can find news references to in from April 2nd, backing up that date). The reason you’re not finding it in the KBase is that, for some unknown reason, Apple all but erased its existance when 10.0.3 (which only makes minor changes from.0.2) shipped; although Software Update would in fact produce an incrimental updater, the 10.0.3 update completely replaced every trace of the 10.0.2 one on Apple’s site.
I remember there being some confusion as to why Apple had done this, and here’s an article Google dug up for me that goes into great detail about it: 10.0.2 was real, though, I’m almost certain I remember installing it, and there were products (initial OSX Cro-mag Rally beta, for example) that required it. I run a plastic cards company and we use macs for everything. We have top end mac pros and macbook pros running snow leopard and some older machines (I cant bare to get rid of them) G5 power macs and G4 power books that run leopard. I find that with snow leopard, apple mail is much nippier than it was on leopard but in general, a 8 core mac pro – feels sluggish. I love using macs and will never go back to using pc’s but they just don’t seem to have any speed about them these days.
I remember many many years ago when I bought my 1st G4 powerbook, it was great and speed wasn’t an issue but now, installed with the most upto date OSX that will run on it, it is rather sluggish to say the least. I think 10.4.7 was the first universal binary system that came out. Certainly was the first Retail release that could be installed on both. Perhaps I’m thinking the server version? Some more comments next to each release, as well as a link to the Knowledge Base article would be useful additions.
To Paul Wilburn — get yourself a Solid State Harddrive. This is where the big bottle neck is on anyone’s system. Get a small one to try it out and stick your toe in the water.
You will not regret it at all.